When The Revolution Was Televised: A new documentary looks back at the Weather Underground, the Great American Terrorists

By Will Blythe
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE

June 12  Had you contracted sleeping sickness in 1973, and awoken 30 years later, you might be excused for wondering where in the world the America you knew had gone. Especially if you believed, as did many young people and some of their sympathizers (Charles Reich, Herbert Marcuse), that we were on the verge of a new American revolution in government and consciousness. Everything would seem reversed.